[Bug 41266] Re: Printing: Unable to rename printer

[Till Kamppeter]

This is a problem of the CUPS interfaces. They do not support renaming
print queues. So a frontend cannot simply rename the queue by sending an
IPP request to the CUPS daemon.

The frontend would need to access the CUPS config files directly to
rename the queue in /etc/cups/printers.conf, rename the PPD file and
rename possible entries related to this queue in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
and /etc/cups/lpoptions. After that the CUPS daemon needs to be
restarted to get note of the changes.

Another possibility is to delete the print queue and then create a new
one with the new name and the same configuration. "foomatic-configure"
can copy queues with the "-C" option. This way one can create the new
queue and afterwards one deletes the old one.

If a frontend is not capable of this, the queue name should not be shown
as an editable input field, this is the bug.

-- 
Printing: Unable to rename printer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41266